Yuanyuan
2005/Color/DVCAM/30min
Location:Shenzhen & Beijing
By:Yu Shaobin
E-mail:shaobin687@hotmail.com
Screen
03/26 9 :00 2 hall
03/27 14:00 3 hall
20 year-old Beijing girl Yuanyuan grew up in a single parent family. When her parents divorced, they went their separate ways: her father took off to South America, only to return to Shenzhen in the early nineties, while her mother headed for Xianjiang where she opened a fertilizer factory. Every chapter of Yuanyuan's life is marked by a different family member and a different city: her father in Shenzhen, her mother in Urumqi and her stepfather's mother, whom she calls 'grandmother' in Beijing.
We meet Yuanyuan as she decides to leave her stepfather in Beijing to join her filmmaking father in Shenzhen. However, things are not so rosy for Yuanyuan there. Her father is rather bohemian and he has a girlfriend who is four years older than her. Yuanyuan can't stand living with them and often imagines she is suffering from a mental illness. On her twentieth birthday, as she wishes her friends to get married soon, deep down inside she wishes them quite the opposite. With the death of her beloved grandmother she loses her only source of emotional support. Once again she jumps on the train alone.
Yu Shaobin
Independent filmmaker. Born in 1974. Yu Shaobin received a Bachelor in film directing from the Beijing Film Academy. His first documentary work, Dongfang Xifang (East, West), won Second Prize for Special Report at the Seventh China Broadcast Television Association Awards (2000). He wrote and directed a short TV drama that earned him the Runner-up Prize for Best Short in the Fourth University Film Festival, 2003.
Filmography
Dongfang Xifang (East, West), 2000; Yuanyuan, 2004
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